The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates data on how the average family in a particular country spent their weekly from 1968 to 2018.

Overall

, there were eight different areas where families spent their income each week, every unit measured in percentages,

such

as food,housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household property, personal equipment, transport and leisure. The highest expenditure was on food, leisure and housing unlike less spent on fuel, power and personal goods,

additionally

, household equipment

expense

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remained unchanged.

Firstly

, every family spent their income mostly on food which accounted for exactly 35% in 1968 but later it showed a downward trend and a huge reduction which was nearly 15% in 2018. The highest expense occurred on leisure from almost 8% to 22%, but fuel and power showed the smallest change about 6% to 5%. In 2018 expenditure reduction on clothing was extremely noticeable almost half compared to 1968.

By contrast

, the expense of transport increased considerably from 8% to 14%, housing was another increase which around doubled.

Due to

all the changes, household furniture remained the same from 1968 to 2018